To wish people would stop being such selfish fucking bellends.

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That’s it really. Everyone else has to KEEP going to the shops to try and find essentials because the fucking knobheads have bough and keep buying up everything.

How can you social distance when you have to constantly hop from shop to shop for basic food for your children?! I’m in the shops more now than I was before this shitshow started.

I couldn’t give a fuck if I got Covid-19, but I don’t want my kids getting it, ever. I have to leave them at home while I go out! I live rurally so no take away, no drliveroo, no community and only 2 towns 15 miles in opposite directions. Still no fucking toilet roll, still no basic veg oil, no hand sanitiser, no basic vegetables, no meat. My kids eat before I do do at least I’m losing weight now, and we have now discovered those birds eye chicken burgers approved by mumsnet. (They are amazing btw!)

Fuck off selfish people and stop putting everyone else at risk you fucking selfish, fucking boggely eyed cuntvid pisswesels.

It seems like one of the biggest problems is distribution between areas. My children live in Kent and tell me that there are no issues at all, no queues, shelves full yet in our area it has never recovered from the mad panic buying and we've got about 7 big superstores within a fairly small radius, yet there's always huge queues and empty shelves.

But would it be so bad if they did? Children seem to get it pretty mildly, and if they get C19 and get over it, they will have immunity

Except some children have been hospitalised by this. And how about we don’t spread things like ‘if you get it once, you’ll have immunity’. There is absolutely no evidence to suggest this, in fact people have apparently been re-infected with it in China.

But we're not because some of us haven't been shopping at all and now desperately need to go so some people are buying more than just a few bits extra because they're buying our share too.

I think you are seeing people purchasing larger quantities in a single shop which concentrates demand on fewer products at a certain time. So people are going once a week rather than every couple of days. Also when they go they purchase for them and family. Generally people won't purchase a wider range of things, just a larger quantity ( to last a week or 2 rather than a few days) - just in time is set up to cater for lots of people buying a really wide range of products. It becomes disrupted when a few people purchase 3 bags of pasta rather than 1 in a single trip plus a bag of rice and some spuds. When people shop for other people they tend to buy more of the same stuff they would buy for themselves.

Dh went to Asda at 7pm last night and I was convinced there would be nothing left. He .a aged to get the milk, bread and cheese we had run out of. Our Asda was well stocked apart from loo roll and pasta which has been short for several weeks anyway. Where are the people experiencing shortages?

I totally agree… I had to fight with social services to get a food Pursley brought to me yesterday, I am disabled, I can’t shop online because there is absolutely nothing available. I think I’m going to have to go out… I have no choice… And then it’s hard to find things… Why the hell can’t people think of others and not themselves? We are all struggling right now. But some of us more than others. And a lot of people with visual impairments are in the same boat right now… We were relying on public transport to get to supermarkets, that’s not safe anymore… When we were going, like I was going and buying a few things at a time, because I can’t carry all of that home… I wish people would think of these things… I don’t want to make several trips to the supermarket per week… I can’t stand this… And I can’t stand all the hard things I’m seeing…

YANBU

People are highly annoying and selfish. Literally just think of themselves. I personally was very annoyed by pictures of the amount of food waste. Why buy food you can’t eat or store?

Nobody is stockpiling though, this is Facebook panic talking. Nobody is allowed to buy multiple things, DH has still been out and about as a keyworker so he has been doing our shopping but said that staff were making people put items back if they were taking more than two or three of anything. People are using more food as whole families are wfh with children off school and cooking more rather than eating at work or going out for meals.

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But usually I have a couple of weeks food in reserve. Because it's been so crazy, like no organised queues, crowds twenty deep to get in and then bare shelves, we've just eaten what we had in. Now we need to go but a) the shelves are bare and b) because you can only buy one or two of anything we can't re stock. We can now only buy what we'll eat for maybe a week.

YANBU and I'm also sick of being told that I should have "bought extra" or to just go to farm shops or smaller shops. Are people really so ignorant that they think everyone can afford to do that? I'm a single parent and I've been furloughed so I'm losing 20% of my income. I can't afford to buy from the butcher or farm shops, plus I don't have a car so I can't go from shop to shop easily.

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Many things here are still really.limited to like only one or two of something so surely it would catch up? And what's the answer to the bare shelves, how do people who need it buy anything?

All our local supermarkets seem back to normal here, ever so slightly lower packed shelves at times but that's it. Delivery slots are hen's teeth obviously, but shops ok. They are controlling how many come in, and how much is bought.

At this stage any major shortages are down to the supermarkets and suppliers more than consumers.

I went to Tesco yesterday at 7am. Was busier that it normally would be at that time but nothing crazy. I managed to get everything I wanted excepted quorn mince. I got pasta, eggs, bread, all my fresh fruit. There was less choice but plenty of what they did have.

I don’t think it helps to call other people selfish.

If I bought the last two packs of painkillers in a shop does that make me selfish? I don’t even need any but I have to buy them for a vulnerable person.

Look at how many people signed up in the government drive to be volunteers. That will mean people shopping for the vulnerable and doing other important activities.

Most people do need more. Normally my husband eats breakfast and lunch out of the house and my 3 year old would be fed 3x meals and snacks a day at nursery. We’re into day 10 of household isolation and by the time we can go shopping we’ll be out of everything. Our next shop will have to be a big one.

All the shops here seem to be well stocked now and I haven’t seen anyone panic buying for a while. The man at Tesco Express said his deliveries are getting bigger and bigger and last week they were small as the supplies were low, so it seems to be catching up.
There are going to be queues everywhere at the moment because of the social distancing measures. For example Tesco is doing one person one trolley as is Waitrose, and only twenty people allowed in at a time, even a normal amount of people means there is going to be a big queue to filter everyone through. All the supermarkets yesterday had pasta, eggs, tinned food, loo roll and paracetamol! Nobody is stock piling because every single supermarket has a restriction now on what you can buy. It will take time.

4 adults at home 24/7. Our food consumption has increased enormously. And so has our loo roll consumption.

I've filled the handwash things with anti-bac washing up liquid and there's bar soap about.

Eggs are the issue here and not much chicken or ketchup for some reason. Also our particular sainsburys has v little booze on the shelves.

I think there was panic buying 2/3 weeks ago but now people generally need more.

Has anyone else noticed far fewer offers though. I think the supermarkets are being very naughty there.

I may go first thing tomorrow to see if I can get eggs, ketchup, and a bit more veg and that should tide us over to next Sat/Sun.

There are no delivery or click and collect slots at all in our bit of Surrey although we managed to get a delivery for MIL in Yorkshire.

And fuck me, with 5 people at home all day (I'm a key worker on a rota) we are consuming a lot more.

YANBU my husband is vulnerable so I was overjoyed to get a supermarket delivery slot. However when it arrived three quarters of it was unavailable so I still had to make a trip to the supermarket. When there people made an obvious dash to the meat, eggs and flour.

I got to the shop by about 7:30am and by the time we left the queue was snaked around the store. I'd suspect anyone planning to shop after 10am would have nothing left.

YABU.

The shops have put limits in place. People are buying what they need for their families. I'm having to go more often than I want as I'm not allowed to buy enough milk.

@Waxonwaxoff0 so what do you think should happen then? Supermarkets already have restrictions in place. You don’t want to buy extra, you don’t want to go to local shops. Have you tried the food bank if you are experiencing difficulty? The donation boxes for the food bank have been full at my local supermarkets. Good to see people being kind.

Another good way to save money is to eat just once a day (adults of course). This actually helped quite a few of my chronic health conditions and I was amazed at how much money I saved.

I have more food in the house than usual. But I’m shopping for 84 meals a week (3x4x7) rather than, say, 60, we’re in self isolation so have been reliant on one shop (lucky enough to have had a delivery booked). I certainly haven’t and will not be throwing anything away and have been more diligent about this than usual - blanching and freezing veg for example. I honestly don’t think stockpiling is the problem here anymore, we’ve just changed the way we shop and the system isn’t flexible enough to cope.

Many things here are still really.limited to like only one or two of something so surely it would catch up? And what's the answer to the bare shelves, how do people who need it buy anything?

Yes in a functioning market it would, but the supply system is in shock - all the people who are now eating at home, with the closure of cafe's and restaurants means supply is restricted to fewer outlets. So even with people eating entirely normally and purchasing just what they need the supply has not been able to keep up.

I didn't stockpile and just bought what I needed. I'm running out of food now.

I'm in the shielding group. I'm on the governments list of vulnerable people but the government haven't shared this information yet. I've messaged all of the supermarkets to tell them this but they must be swamped in customer service queries as nobody has replied and I've not been able to contact any of them by phone. I spent all day yesterday refreshing websites and looking for slots but there's nothing for delivery and nothing for click and collect.

I was on all the social media pages of the supermarkets yesterday and everyone seems to be playing top trumps as to why they are more vulnerable and need to have a slot. I appreciate people are worried and don't want to go to the shops, but however awkward or uncomfortable it might be, you do have the option to go to the shops.

I can't pop to the shops at all. I'm on the shielding list as I have a higher risk of catching C19 and a much higher risk of death if I do. I'm a single parent and can't leave my children to grow up alone if I die.

I'm now left to looking for a volunteer to do my shopping for me. I feel bad asking for help to do something as basic as grocery shopping. If I'd been able to get an online slot, that volunteer could be helping a much more needy person.

Four at home 24/7 here.

Not done a shop for two weeks nearly.
Got to go Monday as we are scraping the barrel so to speak.

Getting through more food but want to do as big a shop as possible so I don't have to go again for a few weeks.

You're being a bit ridiculous. Panic-buying was banned weeks ago with restrictions on items - people are buying food to feed their families. You want them to go hungry so you can get the last bit of meat instead? No, get there earlier.

Instead of blaming people that are struggling just like you are, blame the supermarkets for having crappy just-in-time supply chains. People spending £5 more a week in a time of national crisis are not to blame for this.